XNA Game Studio Express (GSE) simplifies game development, making it more approachable to beginners and providing enhanced productivity for the experienced. However, creating a game with XNA GSE requires you to know how to program. So what do you do if you are interested in making games, but you don't know how to program?

Here's a link to Microsoft's Beginner Developer Learning Center. It provides instruction and tutorials for beginners, teaching them how to program and how to use the C# Express Integrated Development Environment (IDE). Beginners interested in XNA GSE will want to follow the Windows development tracks.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/express/beginner/

Welcome to the world of programming!

--Stephen

IDE = Integrated Development Environment.

Use TorqueX. That, or learn C#. 

Red Ring Rico:

IDE = Integrated Development Environment.

 

Use TorqueX. That, or learn C#. 

You realize that Stephen was not actually asking the question "How do I learn to program" for himself. He's a Microsoft employee on the XNA team that was just posting a resource post right?

Stephen, here's a thread I put together over in the MSDN forums collecting a ton of beginning programming resources. The community offered a ton of great suggestions for new programmers (or existing programmers that are new to C#). It's become quite a good resource and I thought I would re-mention it here for this thread.

Red Ring Rico:

Use TorqueX. That, or learn C#. 

You won't be able to do fancier stuff in TorqueX without knowing C#

Red Ring Rico:

Yeah, sorry about that. I was having some blood glucose problems, so I became delarious throughout the day and don't remember writing that.

delirious + hilarious = delarious?

I have also put together a small list, but will need to update it with the latest videos from MSDN and this site.

Here is the link.

Looks like someone didn't read the topic body.

I see this happen time, and time again. Silly people only read the topic title, but skip over the actual content of the body.

Don't do that. Read before you post.

Red Ring Rico:

IDE = Integrated Development Environment.

 

Use TorqueX. That, or learn C#. 

Red Ring Rico:

Yeah, sorry about that. I was having some blood glucose problems, so I became delarious throughout the day and don't remember writing that.

^^^ Vile lies!

Bapabooiee:

^^^ Vile lies!

Oh how I wish it were, diabetes sucks :(.